WHO AM I REALLY? — LETTING GO OF ATHLETIC IDENTITY
For many athletes it starts off as a dream of playing professionally. Growing up and watching their favourite players inspires them to...
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Marek Komar
- Aug 8, 2021
- 7 min
CAREER FLOW: ARE YOU ENGAGED ENOUGH AT WORK?
You wake up to the monotonous sounds of an alarm. It shines its light on you: 6:30 AM. It’s Monday morning. What sort of feelings or...
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Marek Komar
- Jul 23, 2021
- 6 min
CRAFT VS CONTEXT
Consider the life of a blacksmith hundreds of years ago. They would work on their craft of casting iron and molding metal into a sword,...
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Marek Komar
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
When we were younger, we were often asked: what do you want to be when you grow up? At first, as bright-eyed children we would relish the...
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Marek Komar
- Apr 20, 2020
- 6 min
THE 5 HINDRANCES TO SELF MASTERY
Pursuing a life of mastery, whatever the craft, is a long and tedious journey. I’ve discussed this previously in describing the various...
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Marek Komar
- Mar 31, 2020
- 5 min
WHAT ARE MENTAL SKILLS, EXACTLY?
How much of your success in performance would you attribute to mental skills such as confidence, anxiety management, focus, etc.? Most of...
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Marek Komar
- Mar 3, 2020
- 5 min
NAVIGATING THE WATERS BETWEEN HUMILITY & ARROGANCE
Can you achieve greatness without isolating yourself? On the one hand we can isolate ourselves by conformity; not taking risks, and...
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Marek Komar
- Jan 25, 2020
- 6 min
MENTAL RECOVERY: ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE STRATEGIES TO AVOID BURNOUT
Mihayli Csikszentmihalyi, considered the godfather of flow research, wrote that the best moments in our lives are not the passive,...
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Marek Komar
- Sep 2, 2019
- 3 min
SOCIAL MEDIA: THE EXTERNAL MOTIVATOR
Today I ran a personal best during my yearly 5K “fitness test”. Funny thing is I wasn’t even planning on doing the test today. I...
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Marek Komar
- Jun 12, 2019
- 5 min
THE FOUR STAGES OF COMPETENCE ON THE PATH TO MASTERY
The process of mastering any skill is a long and tedious journey. It involves many hours and a whole lot of trial and error. You may have...
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Marek Komar
- Apr 24, 2019
- 4 min
THE PROBLEM WITH SELF-IMPROVEMENT
You may have come across articles, videos, or for that matter, people who actively promote the idea of self-improvement. It is quite...
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Marek Komar
- Nov 5, 2018
- 4 min
HOW TO REDUCE THE "NOISE" IN YOUR LIFE AND PERFORMANCE
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention” -Herbert A. Simon Performance in any domain can be a daunting task in today’s...
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Marek Komar
- Sep 30, 2018
- 5 min
QUESTIONING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
We’ve all been there, mindlessly scrolling through our feeds looking at the highlights of other peoples curated lives which leaves us...
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Marek Komar
- Jun 1, 2018
- 4 min
DEVELOPING A PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
We all love to strive for success in one way or another. However, most of us differ in what success actually means to us personally. Some...
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